"Salvation is of the LORD." -Jonah 2:9

There is only one thing that matters in our temporal life on this earth, and that one thing is a Person - Christ Jesus our Lord . In the end, everything that we have accomplished will turn out to be emptiness, and everything that we have accumulated will vanish away. But to leave this world holding on to Christ Himself, is to leave this world holding on to the fullness of eternity. In that day, everything will be nothing, and Christ will be ALL ! Lord, teach us to cling to the one thing needful.                                                                        -preacher Gabe Stalnaker

True Faith Never Quits!   - see Job 17:9   The Word of God clearly teaches the perseverance of the saints. “The righteous also shall hold on his way!” Those who are born of God must and shall persevere. They will continue in the faith of Christ. We both believe and keep on believing. The true believer begins in faith, lives in faith, and dies in faith. True faith never quits (John 8:31; Colossians 1:23; Hebrews 3:6).   The Word of God is very clear in this matter. Only those who continue in the faith shall enter into glory. This is the doctrine of the final perseverance of the saints. Those who forsake Christ never knew Christ. Those who depart from the gospel never knew the gospel. Those who fall from the doctrine of grace never had a true experience of grace. Those who fall away were never truly in the Way. All true believers shall persevere in grace to the end.   Perseverance requires diligence and effort on our part. But the cause of our perseverance is God’s grace.

" Ye have an unction from the Holy One, and ye know all things." -I John 2:20 [KJV] A Christian may falsely indulge this covetous wish, to have his head filled with the knowledge, and his heart with the love of Christ. What is knowledge without love? The very devils could say of Christ, “I know Thee who Thou art, the holy one of God.” They have a more distinct knowledge of Christ, believe more of Him, and have just as much love to Him, as Arians, Socinians, and other infidels, who deny His eternal power and godhead, and His self-existent deity. The devils declare, “What have we to do with Thee, Thou Jesus of Nazareth?”   Infidelity in men causes them to give our Saviour no higher name than this, and to allow Him to be no more than a prophet, mighty in word and deed. But they will have nothing to do with Him as the eternal Son of God, atoning sin by His precious blood, justifying sinners by His perfect righteousness, and finishing salvation for them by His life an